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JUL 2024
Sarah Klein will be exhibiting in Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing at the San Francisco Center for the Book. This exhibition brings together artists and publishers from across North America who use Risograph printing as a central element in their works. On view July 13 to October 6, 2024. Catalog available.
MAY 2024
”Resonance in Print” featured in The Sonoma Index - Tribune.
SEPT 2023
Sarah Klein will have her work at Art on Paper, New York as part of the Open Editions booth September 7 - 10, 2023.
JUL 2023
Sarah Klein will have her work at the Seattle Art Fair as part of the Open Editions booth. On view July 27 - 30, 2023.
APR 2023
Pyramid Scheme is on at Bass & Reiner in San Francisco until May 25, 2023.
MAR 2023
Sarah Klein’s work will be on view in Art Kala 2023 in Berkeley from March 30 - May 13, 2023.
JAN 2023
Sarah Klein will be an Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program Feb 7 - 13, 2023.
JAN 2023
The exhibition Books Against the Wall at The Peninsula Museum of Art has been extended to March 5, 2023.
DEC 2022
Sarah Klein’s solo show SUPERBLOOM at The Great Highway has been extended until January 8. 2023.
DEC 2022
Sarah Klein was interviewed in The Daily Journal, “San Bruno Art Show Reinvents How Books Are Viewed” about her participation the Books Against The Wall exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art.
DEC 2022
Sarah Klein will have prints in the East Bay Print Sale at Max’s Garage Press, Berkeley, Dec 8 - 11.
DEC 2022
Sarah Klein will be participating in the 2022 Small Press Book Bazaar at SFMOMA on Thursday, Dec 1, 1 to 8 pm.
NOV 2022
Sarah Klein will transform the storefront window of The Great Highway gallery into a newly invented, botanical landscape of screenprints and animations. Her solo exhibition SUPERBLOOM is on view November 19 - December 18.
NOV 2022
The print “Want Less More” will be on view in the 108th California Society of Printmakers Exhibit at the Piedmont Center for the Arts November 6 - November 27, 2022.
OCT 2022
Holi Moli: Beginner’s Mind, an exhibit at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts opens to the public on October 28th. Highlighting both the artwork of children and nationally-recognized artists, the exhibit including paintings by Sam Tchakalian, Sarah Klein, Tom Nakashima, Ken Hale, Tracey Adams, Al Carter, Judith Foosaner, and students from Forest Grove Elementary School in Pacific Grove, among others. The exhibit can be seen Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 4:00pm, or by appointment, through November 26th, 2022.
OCT 2022
Sarah Klein’s work will be on view in the Artist’s Annual at Kala Art Institute from October 20, 2022 - January 13, 2023
SEP 2022
Telematic Media Arts gallery in San Francisco presents ”Works on Paper” a showcase of hand crafted animated films co-curated by Clark Buckner and Sarah Klein. Featuring the work of Meghana Bisineer, Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, Peter Millard, Johan Rijpma, Paloma Trecka and Selina Trepp. Screening every Saturday (or by appointment) September 17 - October 22
JUL 2022
Two artworks “Our Best Protection” and “Early Days” won the jurors award in the RESTART exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center, CA. The exhibition was juried by Patricia Hickson the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
JUL 2022
Sarah Klein will be running a table under her publishing imprint Lower Falls at the SF Art Book Fair, which is held at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. Look for her at Table #Z06 in the Zine Tent, located on the Tennessee Street side of the building July 14 - 17
JUL 2022
Sarah Klein’s work is included in the Berkeley Art Center 2022 Juried Members Exhibition “No Way Out But Through”, curated by Elena Gross. The show focuses on art as a tool of distraction and as a means of survival. On view from July 2 - August 6
JUN 2022
How can we restart and rebuild after the pandemic and the related personal and community crises? Now more than ever, we crave opportunities for healing, connection, and restoration. And we acknowledge the vital power of art as a tool for promoting resilience, hope, and renewal. RESTART, an exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center, will showcase how art can promote healing and restoration. This exhibition was juried by Patricia Hickson the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Sarah Klein debuts two new works that were made in response to these Covid times. The exhibition will be on view June 25 - August 20
MAY 2022
Sarah Klein’s print will be in the group exhibition New Work at the Radius Gallery Annex in the Tannery Art Center in Santa Cruz from May 6 - May 25
APR 2022
Sarah Klein’s work will be on view in the Art Kala 2022 exhibition for the Kala Art Institute Auction Benefit in Berkeley from April 7 - May 22
MAR 2022
In observance of Spring Equinox, Klein’s animation “The Roof Garden” will return to the top of the Salesforce Tower from Sunday, March 20th through Thursday, March 24th, screening each night from Sunset until Midnight.
MAR 2022
The California Society of Printmakers published a report on Klein’s 2021 residency at the School of Visual Philosophy in San Jose, CA.
MAR 2022
Orbitals, Klein’s 2020 publication, is part of a reading room curated by Orvokki Crosby at Locust Projects, Miami, FL.
MAR 2022
Album artwork for Arcades. Legendary pianist Anthony Coleman (John Zorn, Glenn Branca), teams up with acclaimed drummer Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Drums and Drones) for their debut duo album, Arcades. Album artwork by Sarah Klein and David Kwan, from the POLAR series (Yellow, Blue and Pink). Chaikin Records release March 25, 2022.
FEB 2022
The OPEN EDITIONS retail shop located at 788 Valencia St in San Francisco now carries Sarah Klein’s prints. OPEN EDITIONS works with contemporary artists to manufacture, wholesale, and retail products that bring art to your daily life.
JAN 2022
Sarah Klein returns to the School of Visual Philosophy as an artist-in-resident.
DEC 2021
Ideal Engagements is a Risograph portfolio featuring the work of 15 members of the California Society of Printmakers. Curated by Zach Clark of National Monument Press, the portfolio attempts to bridge the gap between traditional printmaking and Risograph. Klein contributed the print Our Garden to the portfolio.
DEC 2021
Sarah Klein spoke with Missy Singer DuMars, farmer and host of the Women in Food podcast, about collaborating on The Local Foods Wheel, making art, bread as art, and the artist Ruth Asawa, who was early influence on my work. Klein also illustrated some limited edition products for Crown Hill Farm.
OCT 2021
Sarah Klein received the California Society of Printmakers Residency Award which will take place at the School of Visual Philosophy in San Jose, CA.
SEP 2021
”Both Ways Will Take You There” features individual and collaborative works by Sarah Klein and David Kwan, reflecting their interests in experimental animation, visual music, and serial processes across a range of media. The exhibit opens in person and online at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA from September 17 - October 16.
JUL 2021
In partnership with Jim Campbell Studio and Boston Properties the Salesforce Tower in downtown San Francisco presents Klein’s new animation The Roof Garden. The Roof Garden uses the venerable storytelling form of hand shadows, and features silhouettes of hands holding assorted flowers and plant cuttings. In the sequence of images, the silhouettes morph into kaleidoscopic patterns, turning the tower into one huge flower. Klein’s animation will be screening nightly throughout the month of July, midnight to 1:00 a.m.
JUN 2021
Sarah Klein collaborated with designer Maggie Gosselin to publish two new cyclical prints, The Week and The Year.
MAR 2021
Sarah Klein’s prints are featured in the online publication The Racket Journal.
MAR 2021
Chandra Cerrito Art Advisors have placed two of Klein’s monoprints in the art collection of Kaiser Permanente in Berkeley, CA. The prints will be located in the reception area for pediatric medical care.
MAR 2021
Sarah Klein’s work will be on view in the Art Kala 2021 exhibition for the Kala Art Institute Auction Benefit in Berkeley from March 11 - May 16.
FEB 2021
Announcing the premier of a stop-motion animation of shadowplay for "Through the Looking Glass", a COVID-proof exhibition in public space that brings new light to the industrial complex of Papegaaisbolwerk 18/20, Leiden, NL. On view nightly until March 7.
OCT 2020
Sarah Klein’s newest risograph book Orbitals and her earlier publications Velocities and Rotationals are now available at the Printed Matter bookstore in New York. Orbitals is also available at The Concern Newsstand in Durham, NC.
SEP 2020
Sarah Klein is participating in Southern Exposure Gallery’s first online Monster Drawing Rally on October 29.
JUL 2020
Sarah Klein is offering her print Rose Wire to the Headlands Center for the Arts annual benefit auction. Online July 9-21.
MAY 2020
A new print edition is now available through Davis Editions.
MAR 2020
Lower Falls is the publishing imprint of artist and animator Sarah Klein. Klein will be debuting her newest risograph book Orbitals at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, April 3-5, 2020. **Cancelled due to COVID-19**
MAR 2020
Klein is a new member of the California Society of Printmakers (CSP) a non-profit organization which promotes the practice and appreciation of contemporary printmaking in the West. Klein’s print Late Day Bouquet will be on view in their 106th annual exhibition taking place a the Piedmont Center for the Arts, CA from March 15 - April 4, 2020. **Postponed due to COVID-19**
FEB 2020
Now playing in the San Francisco Peephole Cinema is RItualized Days. Curated by Sarah Klein this program looks at life through our habits, rituals and routines. Featuring the work of Eva Bakkeslett, Alyssa Block, Tess Martin and Yaloo. When it seems the world is spinning out of control politically, socially and environmentally, one might look to keeping a regular constitutional to square meaning and perspective. These routines, whether from personal habits or the outside world, can be a path towards transcendence. These four works witness and reflect on our rituals in the form of breath, exercise, our relationship to the sun and shadow dances. On view until April 24.
JAN 2020
Klein is mentioned for her work with the Peephole Cinema in SF/Arts Monthly and KQED Arts.
DEC 2019
Klein’s work will be on view in the Kala Art Institute 2019-2020 Artist’s Annual from December 5, 2019 to February 29, 2020.
OCT 2019
Debuting the commissioned animation The Shipment. A collaboration with investigative journalist Mark Schapiro to promote his book Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply. This animation project was supported by a grant from Invoking the Pause, an environmental program that cultivates innovative ideas to address climate change.
OCT 2019
Klein’s 2019 publications Velocities and Misty Duet will be presented at the Minnesota Center for the Book New Editions celebration, October 18-19. This curated program showcases artist’s books and broadsides in all forms.
SEPT 2019
Each year the City of Berkeley celebrates the richness of artistic production within the Berkeley community with the Civic Center Art Exhibition. This year’s exhibition is produced through a collaboration between Kala Art Institute, the Civic Arts Commission and the City of Berkeley Civic Arts Program. Four of Klein’s prints are on view to visitors in the Civic Center building until November 2020.
JULY 2019
Klein’s solo show Lost Holidays will open at the Telematic gallery in San Francisco in June. Klein will present new prints and animation. The show will be on view from June 22nd - August 10th. The catalog is designed by Maggie Gosselin and features an essay by Telematic director Clark Buckner.
JULY 2019
Klein will have a selection of prints available at Kala Art Institute’s Summer Sale, Berkeley, CA July 25-August 17.
JULY 2019
The animation Lone Star will be presented during the Indie Street Film Festival at Detour Art Gallery, Red Bank, NJ, July 24-28.
JUNE 2019
Klein’s solo show Lost Holidays will open at the Telematic gallery in San Francisco in June. Klein will present new prints and animation. The show will be on view from June 22nd - August 10th.
APR 2019
The animation Misty Quartet will be presented in the inaugural exhibition Vitrine at Plexus Projects in Brooklyn on April 19.
MAR 2019
The Mission Local newspaper recently interviewed Klein about curating the Peephole Cinema in San Francisco. The current show titled “I Wanna Dance in a Moment Like This” features the work of three artists from Creativity Explored.
MAR 2019
Starting on March 18 the Peephole Cinema in San Francisco will screen I WANNA DANCE IN A MOMENT LIKE THIS three works by artists from Creativity Explored. This show is curated by Sarah Klein and is presented in partnership with Intersection for the Arts as part of the Intersect SF series. Screening 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until May 18th.
MAR 2019
Klein is offering her print So On at Kala Art Institute’s Gala and Auction on April 6. The work will be on view in the Kala Art Gallery from March 14 - April 6.
FEB 2019
A selection of new prints are on view in downtown Berkeley and will be displayed in the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Building for the coming year. This annual show features work by artists who live or work in Berkeley. The four prints were made at Kala Art Institute during a Media Arts Fellowship last year.
JAN 2019
Soon to be published is Klein’s newest risograph book project Velocities. Velocities is inspired by widening circles on the surface of a pond and by undulations below ground during an earthquake. Each page presents an image sequence that pulsates and ripples in varying magnitudes, when animated through the mind’s eye or when using a GIF application on a smart device. Velocities will be featured at Kala Art Institute’s table at CODEX VII Book Fair at the Craneway Pavillion, Richmond, California, February 3 - 6.
JAN 2019
Klein’s work will be on view in the Kala Art Institute 2019 Artist’s Annual from January 17 to March 2, 2019.
JAN 2019
Starting on January 8th the Peephole Cinema in San Francisco will screen OUTSIDE IN a collection of three works of somatic experience of outer and inner landscapes. Works by Stacey Goodman, Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson and Minoosh Zomorodinia will be on view 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until March 9th. This show is curated by Sarah Klein and is presented in partnership with Intersection for the Arts as part of the Intersect SF series supported with funds from Grants for the Arts.
DEC 2018
The Peephole Cinema received an Intersect SF grant from Intersection for the Arts. The grant will support a series of screenings at the cinema into the early Spring of 2019.
NOV 2018
Klein was chosen as one of the Fall 2018 Ucross Foundation Artist-in-Residence.
OCT 2018
Klein received a grant from Invoking the Pause an environmental program that cultivates innovative ideas to address climate change. She is working in collaboration with investigative journalist Mark Schapiro to create an animation to compliment Schapiro’s new book Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Foods Supply. Their animation will be launched later in the Fall.
OCT 2018
Klein is quoted on Exploring the Orange Alley Peephole Cinemas by Oddity Odysseys.
SEP 2018
Klein's work is included in the publication 23 Sandy Gallery Exhibition Archive 2007-2017. This boxed set of catalogs showcases 10 years of themed exhibitions of limited-edition arts books, broadsides, letterpress printing and calligraphy from around the world.
SEP 2018
The piece No More Goodbyes will be included in the AGA LAB Prints 60 Years exhibition featuring 100+ artists who have worked at AGA LAB at different times and with various techniques. The show opens at BOUWput Gallery in Amsterdam on September 14th with a welcome from the director and a round-table discussion. The show will be on view until October 12, 2018.
AUG 2018
Klein is delighted to have her print Take Flight grace the cover of Kristin Berger's new book of poetry Echolocation. Forthcoming from Cirque Press on August 25th.
AUG 2018
Klein's print work is part of the art collection in Blackwell Hall a new dorm for incoming Freshman on the University of California Berkeley campus. The print piece originated from the cells of her stop-motion animation Misty Quartet.
JUL 2018
Six large-scale silkscreen and digital prints are now installed at Stiles Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus. This project was organized and curated by the Metropolitan Gallery Fine Art Consulting agency in Austin, TX.
JUL 2018
Klein was interviewed about the San Francisco Peephole Cinema for a television broadcast on Telemundo 48.
JUL 2018
The Gradients sketchbook is currently on tour in a mobile library with hundreds of other sketchbooks as part of The Sketchbook Project. Tour stops include The Distillery Historic District in Toronto, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Governers Island, New York and Ponce City Market in Atlanta.
JUN 2018
The anthology On the Edge. Work by Playa Residents 2017 includes two of Klein's monoprints. Published by Playa, Summer Lake, OR.
MAY 2018
The Kala Art Institute gallery is proud to present Skinnable Shadows, featuring the new work by 2017-2018 Kala Media Arts Fellowship artists. This exhibition, which runs from May 10 to July 7th, presents a group of innovative artists working in and across video, sound, performance cinema, and installation. These artists piloted this new program, a creative residency at Kala to create multi-media projects that culminate in Kala gallery public programming. In this exhibition Klein will debut a new collaborative work with David Kwan titled Among Points, Along Lines.
APR 2018
The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor gives Secrets Kids Know...and Adults Oughta Learn the Best New Book of the Year award. Klein illustrated the book and worked with her father Allen Klein on the project.
APR 2018
Three works from Klein's monoprint series will be presented at the International Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition and Forum 2018, Luxembourg April 19 - May 1
MAR 2018
Klein was interviewed on The Wine Road podcast about her illustrations for The Local Foods Wheel.
MAR 2018
Faster Firecracker is included in the touring international print exhibition Global Matrix IV. Juried by Kathryn Reeves, Kimberly Vito, Sean Caulfield and Craig Martin. Global Matrix IV will be on view at the Galleries at Cleveland State University, OH March 9 - Apr 21.
FEB 2018
Klein is included in a video compilation of recollections related to Temescal Amity Works (a project of fieldfaring by Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell). Klein shared a memory of her longstanding performative piece The Bread Project. The video is part of the exhibition You Had To Be There at Swissnex Gallery in San Francisco Feb 8 - Apr 20
JAN 2018
Klein's book Rotationals has been added to The Spencer Collection at the New York Public Library. The collection surveys the illustrated word and book bindings of all periods.
JAN 2018
The book Rotationals will be on view in the Z.Archive Exhibit, curated by Ellen Mueller at the Clair T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, North Dartmouth, MA Jan 12 - Feb 16
DEC 2017
Klein's work is mentioned in "Powerful Prints: Global Matrix IV", The Purdue Review
NOV 2017
Exhibiting in Art Shop, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA Dec 1-22
OCT 2017
Klein's book Rotationals is now available at Printed Matter in New York
JUL 2017
View You Are Here a commissioned animation for The Commons at the Headlands Center for the Arts
JUN 2017
The New York Academy of Medicine writes about the The Local Foods Wheel. Read more here
JUN 2017
The book Rotationals was recently added to the Special Collections Artist Book Library at Reed College and the UCLA Art Library.
APR 2017
Exhibiting in BUILT: Book Art and Architecture at 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR Apr 7 - May 27
MAR 2017
Exhibiting in Oppler at Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. On view from Mar 31 - May 7
FEB 2017
Klein received a Spring 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Playa, Summer Lake, Oregon.
FEB 2017
Exhibiting at the Codex Book Fair and Symposium in Richmond CA. The work Rotationals will be at the Kala Art Institute table (#189/190) Feb 5-8
JAN 2017
Faster Firecracker is included in the international print exhibition Global Matrix IV. Juried by Kathryn Reeves, Kimberly Vito, Sean Caulfield and Craig Martin. Fountain Gallery in Downtown Lafayette and Ringel Gallery at the Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, US from Jan 9 - Feb 18, 2017. Catalog available
OCT 2016
Included in the book "Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art". Published by Steidl.
OCT 2016
Work on view in Kala Artists' Annual, Berkeley, CA from Oct 27 - Dec 17
SEP 2016
Featured on KQED Arts "Local Foods Wheel Creators on Love and Locavores" by Hiya Swanhuyser
SEP 2016
Sarah Klein will unveil a new risograph book and present her work at AGA LAB, Amsterdam from Sept 29, 5:00-7:00
AUG 2016
arrive yesterday, every moment, a first. Prints by Sarah Klein and poems by Erin Wilson published on 7x7. Click here to visit
DEC 2015
Winter Artist at Djerassi Artist Resident Program, Woodside, CA
DEC 2015
Work on view in the Kala Artist Annual, Berkeley, CA Dec 17 - Mar 26, 2016
DEC 2015
Exhibiting at the Open-Editions booth at the Miami Project Art on Paper from Dec 1-6
NOV 2015
Presenting Split Second Invitations at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
OCT 2015
Screening Lone Star at the The Festival of Color and Light, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ